This document is a bibliography from the United States Embassy in Panama containing references on the topic of corruption. It lists 12 sources, including books and publications from organizations like the OECD and United Nations. The references cover issues like how corruption affects development, reform efforts, institutional design and cultural factors related to corruption in various world regions like Latin America. Analysis of corruption is approached from economic, political and social perspectives. Primary research methods like interviews and case studies are also referenced.

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Bibliografía Especializada
Corrupción
1. Rose-Ackerman, Susan. La corrupción y los gobiernos: causas, consecuencias y reformas. Traducción:
Alfonso Colodrón Gómez. Madrid : SigloVeintiuno de España Editores, 2001.
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Este libro se centra en la forma en que la corrupción afecta a los países en vías de desarrollo y a aquellos que
están realizando la transición a partir delsocialismo estatal.
2. No longer business as usual. Fighting bribery and corruption. Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development. France : OECD, 2000.
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This book provides elements needed to build and preserve corruption-free institutions, systems, and private
enterprises.
3. Combating corruption in Latin America. Washington, D.C. : Published by Woodrow Wilson : Baltimore :
Distributed by John Hopkins University Press, c2000.
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Authors from across the region, the United States and Europe, discuss the nature, method and historical
antecedents of today’s corrupt practices, including issues of institutional design, the role of actors, and culture.
4. Della Porta, Donatella. 1956-. Corrupt exchanges: actors, resources and mechanisms of political
corruption. New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1999.
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In this book primary research on the Italian case (judicial proceedings, in-depth interviews, parliamentary
documents, and press databases), combined with a cross-national comparison based on a secondary analysis of
corruption in democratic systems, is used to develop a model to analyze corruption as a network of illegal
exchanges.
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2. 5. Rose-Ackerman, Susan. Corruption and government: causes, consequences and reform.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth and lead to ineffective
government. Corruption creates economic inefficiencies and inequities, but reforms are possible to reduce the
material benefits from payoffs.
6. Corruption and development. Edited by Mark Robinson. Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 1998.
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The contributions in this volume offer a fresh approach to analyzing the problem of corruption in developing
countries and the best means to tackle the phenomenon.
7. Girling, J.L.S. Corruption, capitalism and democracy. London; New York: Routledge, 1997.
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This book is an important and very relevant study of corruption which is ever present in political life. Girling
demonstrates that corruption does not disappear as countries develop and modernize, but rather that corruption
takes on new forms.
8. Corruption and good governance. Discussion paper 3. New York : United Nations Development
Programme, 1997.
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This publication discusses the issue of corruption, isolating its underlying economic causes in the industrial and
developing world. It assesses options for combating corruption and highlights important lessons learned from
reform experiences of a number of countries. It also discusses domestic reform strategies and the role of the
international community.
9. Rico, José. La corrupción pública en América Latina: manifestaciones y mecanismos de control. Miami,
Florida : Centro para la Administración de Justicia, 1996.
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Este libro examina la corrupción pública, que durante muchos años ha viciado los sistemas políticos
latinoamericanos, amenazando hoy con desestabilizar las aún frágiles democracias del continente, y se convierte
en uno de los obstáculos más preocupantes para la gobernabilidad de dichas sociedades.
10. Corruption and the global economy. Washington, D.C. : Institute for International Economics, 1996.
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This book examines the causes and consequences of corruption, with particular attention to its impact on
economic and political development. It also explores the steps that nongovernmental organizations, developing-country
governments, multilateral developing banks, multinational firms, can take to combat corruption.

3. 11. Clutterbuck, Richard. Drugs, crime and corruption: thinking the unthinkable. New York :New York
University Press, 1995.
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The author contributes to the continuing debate over drug policy options with four
alternative strategies: a no holds barred commitment to effective repression of consumption and trafficking;
decriminalization (removing criminal sanctions while retaining the drugs' illegal status), greater scope to doctors
to prescribe addicts their drug of choice and - the fourth option - legalization.
12. Klitgard, Robert. Controlando la corrupción. Una indagación práctica para el gran problema social del
siglo. Traducción de Emilio Sierra. Buenos Aires : Editorial Sudamericana, 1994.
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Este libro ha sido escrito para ayudar a los lectores a analizar las conductas corruptas y decidir que hacer en ese
sentido. Les pide despojarse de ciertos prejuicios que pudieran haber elaborado sobre este tema y leerlo con la
mente abierta.